Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Ten years are a long time when it comes to (recent) technologies. The first post on this blog was on the topic of how to present chemistry with three intact dimensions. I had in mind molecular models, molecular isosurfaces and molecular vibrations (arguably a further dimension). Here I reflect on how ten years of progress in technology has required changes and the challenge of how any necessary changes might be kept “under the hood” of this blog.
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Tags:Ajax, Computer programming, computing, Cross-platform software, HTML, Interesting chemistry, Java, Java applet, Java technology, JavaScript, JavaScript libraries, jmol, JQuery, NPAPI, Scientific Journal, Software engineering, Technology/Internet, web browser behaviour, web browsers, Web-page security
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I started what can be regarded as the precursor to this blog. As part of a celebration of this anniversary,[1] I revisited the page to see whether any of it had withstood the test of time. Here I recount what I discovered.
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P.W. May, S.A. Cotton, K. Harrison, and H.S. Rzepa, "The ‘Molecule of the Month’ Website—An Extraordinary Chemistry Educational Resource Online for over 20 Years", Molecules, vol. 22, pp. 549, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040549
Tags:10.5517, Advertising & Marketing - NEC, chemical context, Chemical IT, chemical markup language, City: London, Commercial REITs - NEC, Company: Chime, Company: Eastman Kodak, Company: First Industrial, digital cameras, Digital Object Identifier, food additives, Historical, HTML, Imperial College, industrial strength HTML editor, Java, JavaScript, manufacturing factory, mauveine using molecular modelling software, Person Attributes, Photographic Equipment, Technology/Internet, validation tool, Web, web archaeology, web server, XML, year old Web pages
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
ELNs (electronic laboratory notebooks) have been around for a long time in chemistry, largely of course due to the needs of the pharmaceutical industries. We did our first extensive evaluation probably at least 15 years ago, and nowadays there are many on the commercial market, with a few more coming from opensource communities. Here I thought I would bring to your attention the potential of an interesting new entrant from the open community.
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Tags:.com, Chemical IT, chemical sketches, Java, JavaScript, lecturer, molecular editor, PDF, pharmaceutical industries, Silicon Graphics, three technologies, web browsers, Web-based behaviour
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Sunday, June 8th, 2014
A word of explanation about this test page for experimenting with JSmol. Many moons ago I posted about how to include a generated 3D molecular model in a blog post, and have used that method on many posts here ever since. It relied on Java as the underlying software (first introduced in 1996), or almost 20 years ago. Like most software technologies, much has changed, and Java itself (as a compiled language) has had to move to improve its underlying security. In the last year, the Java code itself (in this case Jmol) has needed to be digitally signed in a standard manner, and this meant that many an old site that used unsigned older versions has started to throw up increasingly alarming messages.
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Tags:Bob Hanson, Chemical IT, Java, JavaScript, Jim Hu, software technologies, Takanori Nakane, wonderful technology
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011
My very first post on this blog, in 2008, was to describe how Jmol could be used to illustrate chemical themes by adding 3D models to posts. Many of my subsequent efforts have indeed invoked Jmol. I thought I might review progress since then, with a particular focus on using the new generations of mobile device that have subsequently emerged.
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Tags:administrator, Android, Android mobile operating system, Ball, Chemical IT, chemical themes, e-book, e-books, Google, HP, Java, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows, mobile device, operating system, php, Skolnik, Tutorial material, WebGL technologies
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Friday, December 24th, 2010
If you get a small rotatable molecule below, then ChemDoodle/HTML5/WebGL is working. Why might this be important? Well, the future is mobile, in other words, devices that rely on batteries or other sources of built-in power. This means the power guzzling GPU cards of the past (some reach ~400 Watts!) cannot be used. Rather than using e.g. a full power OpenGL library, one will use Web-based graphics libraries, which (to quote Wikipedia) extends the capability of the JavaScript programming language to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser. A typical target device might be for example Apple’s iPad (for which the redoubtable Jmol, which is based on Java, is unlikely to ever work).
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Tags:3D graphics, Apple, Chemical IT, GPU, HTML5, iPad, Java, JavaScript, OpenGL library, SVG, typical target device, Web browser, Web-based graphics libraries, WebGL
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